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UN TED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM J. \VALTEBS, OF PROSPECT, NEW YORK.

SUSPENDER BUQKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 381,300, dated April 17, 1888.

I Application filed November 1, 1887. Serial No. 253,946. {No.model.) I

' T aZZ whom it may concern.-

- Be it known that I, WILLIAM J. WALTERS,

of Prospect, in the county of Oneida and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Suspender-Buckle, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. The invention relates to an improvement in the sus'pender-buckle for which a patent was granted to me November 29, 1887, N o. 374, 022. The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved Suspender-buckle in which the clamp is securely held in place and firmly" guided on the side bars.

Theiii'vention consistsofabuckle-frame provided with a cross-bar near its middle and with a cross bar having a central aperture near its bottom, and .ofa clamp sliding on the side bars o-fsaid frame, its lower end passing through said aperture.

The invention also consists in the construc tion and arrangementof certain parts and details and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter, and then point-ed out in the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts .in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improvement. Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation of the same on the line 00 0c of Fig. l, and Fig. 3 is a sectional plan view of part of my improvement on the line 3 y of Fig. 2.

The buckle-frame B is provided with the side bars, B B, top crossbar, B and bottom I cross-bar, B", having in its middle an aperture,

B preferably made-by bending part of the cross-bar B outward and securing to the crossbar a sleeve, B which has part of its middle cutaway at the front, as shown in Fig. 3. The aperture may also be formed by splitting the count of passing through the aperture B, is

prevented from moving sidewise, thus obviating abinding of the hearings on the side bars, B, of the buckle-frame, so that said clamp D is readily adjusted and at the'same time the hook part of the clamp is prevented from passing above the cross-bar B Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A buckle-frame having an aperture in itslower end bar and provided with an intermediate cross-bar, in combination with a clamp sliding on the side bars of the frame and projecting downward in front of the intermediate crossbar and through the aperture of the lower end bar, substantially as shown and described.

' WILLIAM J. WALTERS.

Witnesses:

CHARLES F. WALTERS, GEORGE W. Jones. 

